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tangle:
"By just looking at you
attachment wakes in the
onlookers,
and on seeing us rise vatsalabhava (affection)
spontaneously,
even an attached one for some
moments
gets lost in detachment;
the vatsala-bhava stored within us
coming up, slipping from the cheeks,
turns the stone-chests of the enemies
standing in opposition, into soft flowers.
In us invaluable utterances have been brought up,
and
in you is found only hollowness.
One thing more,
developed or developing the life may be, however many the virtues there may be, comparing oneself with others
is the cause of ruin,
a sign of humility also.
And,
this act of comparison is, in a different way, rivalry; the rivalry brings to light
Silent Soil:: 341
